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Friday, December 18, 2015

Bergdahl Court Martial also Indicts Obama - Daniel John Sobieski

by Daniel John Sobiesk

The lies unravel in the Bergdahl case.

The
decision to refer the case of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl to a general court
martial on charges of desertion by Gen. Robert B. Abrams, the head of
Army Forces Command at Ft. Bragg, N.C., shows there remains at least one
general not cowed by President Obama’s purge of command officers deemed insufficiently subservient to his policies of appeasement and unilateral disarmament. As Breitbart reported:

Bergdahl,
who was kidnapped by the Taliban following his abandonment of a forward
operating base in Afghanistan, was charged this year with desertion and
misbehavior before the enemy. If charged with the latter, he could
potentially face life in prison. If charged with only desertion, he
faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

Hopefully he will face life in prison and is lucky a firing squad is not in the cards. It was not what President Obama, who welcomed the parents
of deserter Bergdahl to the White House Rose Garden to cheer the
alleged good news of the return of the deserter six other soldiers died
looking for, wanted to hear. President Obama, who said we traded five
Taliban commanders for Bergdahl because we leave no soldier behind, has
had no regrets about leaving former Marine Amir Hekmati a prisoner in Iran. Nor did he raise a finger as Andrew Tahmooressi was left to rot in a Mexican prison for taking the wrong exit. That
Bergdahl was a deserter and a traitor should never have been in doubt,
yet it was, partially due to President Obama sending National Security
Adviser Susan Rice, who spread the Benghazi video lies on the Sunday
talk show circuit, to appear on the June 1, 2014 broadcast of ABC’s
“This Week to tell two more lies, that Bergdahl was a good soldier and
that trading five top Taliban commanders would not endanger U.S.
security. As Breitbart reported:

Regarding
the desertion allegations, she said Bergdahl, “served the United States
with honor and distinction. And we’ll have the opportunity eventually
to learn what has transpired in the past years.”Rice
also said that “assurances relating to the movement, the activities,
the monitoring of those detainees [released in exchange for Bergdahl]
give us confidence that they cannot and, in all likelihood, will not
pose a significant risk to the United States. And that it is in our
national interests that this transfer had been made.”

In
fact, the Taliban trade of the terrorist equivalent of four-star
generals does and has jeopardized U.S. security and was done to exploit
Bergdahl’s captivity to help Obama to get the worst of the worst out of
Guantanamo to facilitate his campaign pledge of closing the facility.
That Bergdahl was a deserter should never have been in doubt, judging by
the universal condemnation of those who served with him. Investor’s Business Daily
(IBD) noted that fact and editorialized that Obama feared a
court-martial because it could lead to him being charged with providing
material assistance to a terrorist enemy:

Every
one of the men who served with Bergdahl or tried to find him and who
have spoken out publicly has said he was clearly a deserter.Indeed,
the uncontestable fact is that Bergdahl walked away from his post in a
time of war, leaving his weapon and gear behind. He was not out for a
walk to relieve stress or clear his head."Bowe
Bergdahl deserted during a time of war, and his fellow Americans lost
their lives searching for him," former Sgt. Matt Vierkant told CNN. At
least six soldiers died in operations looking for Bergdahl.Fox
News analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano has said that Obama dreads a
court-martial for desertion, which is what the report might recommend,
because questions regarding a trade providing material assistance to a
terrorist group could be asked."We
have a federal statute which makes it a felony to provide material
assistance to any terrorist organization," Napolitano said. "It could be
money, maps, professional services, any asset whatsoever, (including)
human assets."

And there’s the nagging question of whether a ransom for Bergdahl was offered and/or paid. As Fox News has reported, Rep. Duncan Hiunter, R-Calif., has been pursuing whether the Obama administration tried to trade cash for Bergdahl:

The
FBI played a central role in making a botched “payment” meant to help
secure Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s release last year, according to the
office of a House Republican now seeking answers on why the bureau was
involved at all in the apparent rescue attempt.Rep.
Duncan Hunter, R-Calif. --- who has long questioned whether a ransom of
some kind was offered for Bergdahl’s release --- claimed in a recent
letter to the Justice Department inspector general that he has learned
“non-DoD organizations, led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI), undertook the recovery mission.”As
part of this effort, Hunter told DOJ IG Michael Horowitz, the FBI even
went to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and “awaited Bergdahl’s arrival
following some form of discussion about facilitating a payment.”Bergdahl
didn’t show -- and ultimately was not released until May when he was
traded for five Taliban leaders. Hunter’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper,
told FoxNews.com the unsuccessful FBI border visit came after this
operation paid an Afghan intermediary, who then ran off with the money.

As Investor’s Business Daily
reported in a December 2014 editorial, Hunter had also pursued the
ransom payment for Bergdahl issue with outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck
Hagel:

"It
has been brought to my attention that a payment was made to an Afghan
intermediary who 'disappeared' with the money and failed to facilitate
Bergdahl's release in return," Hunter wrote in a Nov. 4 letter to
outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.As
Bill Gertz reports in the Washington Free Beacon, Hagel's Nov. 21
response to Hunter was a tad equivocal. The Pentagon "did not make any
payment of ransom nor make any attempt to pay ransom for the lease of
Sgt. Bergdahl," Hagel said.Hagel
then added that "we have no information that any payment was made to an
Afghan intermediary in exchange for facilitating Sgt. Bergdahl's
release." OK, so which is it — that no ransom was paid or there's no
information that a ransom was paid?Gertz
reports that Hunter also wrote to the Pentagon's inspector general, Jon
Rymer, a letter that noted: "Defense officials said the payments were
likely part of a $5 million fund that the commander of the U.S. Central
Command has at his disposal, which can be used to pay rewards or to
purchase information leading to the release of captive."

Was
President Obama offering a ransom to get Bergdahl back under the radar,
switching to the Gitmo Taliban trade as a Plan B? Bergdahl deserves
court martial and imprisonment for his desertion in time of war. The
question is just what President Obama deserves for providing material
aid and comfort to a terrorist enemy?

Daniel John Sobieskiis a freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications. Source: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/bergdahl_court_martial_also_indicts_obama.html Copyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.